Hannah Fetty's Blog

You could say that I am a fairly competitive person. I love playing games. If anything competitive is going on, I am totally down. A campus christian organization that I am a part of (Chi Alpha) had a game night the other day and after playing several other fun and challenging games, we decided to finish up our evening with a game of spoons. To be quite honest, I've never been good at spoons. I don't typically react quick enough to grab a spoon. (To my surprise I actually won both rounds we played. It was a miracle.) While playing spoons, the goal is to get four cards with the same number on each of them. So, you pass the cards around until someone gets four of the same numbers and grabs the first spoon. From there, it's a free for all. There's scratching, hitting, stealing, punching,... anything goes when you're trying to get that spoon. Okay, I may have over exaggerated slightly as to how violent the game got, but you get the point. The person without a spoon in...

Have you ever just shared something on social media based on the title? Or perhaps based on the picture? Have you done it without reading the actual article attached?  I'm sure at one point we've all done it. Or we've at least shared something we've barely skimmed over. This is extremely dangerous because as we promote and share stories and articles and other links onto our social media, others will assume that we are advocating for whatever that story might be saying. And, what it might be saying may not be the truth.  With the ever-changing capabilities of technology, it has become easier and easier to publish things online. Literally anything can be posted on the internet. All you need is access to the internet and something to type with in order to publish for thousands and even millions of people to view.  With this in mind, it should be noted that one can make up whatever they want for the world to see. If I wanted to, I could theoretically write a stor...

Have you ever noticed how the pictures that your tagged in on Facebook end up being the most hideous pictures of you? Like you always post the most beautiful and polished photos of yourself to make your profile look great. Naturally. But what about those gosh darn tagged pictures? The one from that time when you had that really bad haircut in middle school? Or the time you broke your nose and blood was gushing everywhere? Or that one where someone caught you perfectly right in the middle of a sneeze? Yeahhhhhhhh...... all those. Those are the best, right? I bring up these horrendous pictures to make the claim that these pictures are necessary. They are important. They are valuable. Why, you might be asking yourself. Well I can tell you in one word. Memes. Yes, that's right. Memes . If there was never an embarrassing or awkward picture taken of anyone, what would we use to make memes with? The question is, what makes a meme successful? What makes it get shared to the point th...

I think we've all lost something that's super valuable or important to us. A few years back, my mom, grandma, sister-in-law and I went on a girls' beach trip. It was great... until my mom lost the diamond in her ring. My dad had just gotten it for her for their anniversary. Her original engagement ring had fallen behind the sink years ago and it was impossible to get to. She had wanted a new ring for so long, and then when she finally got one, the diamond managed to fall out and was untraceable. Our first response as faith-filled women was prayer. We were praying and searching and my mom was quite frantic. She had lost something that was valuable and that had become a part of her life. Plus we had been on the beach earlier that day which meant the diamond should have literally been ANYWHERE. Long story short, we found the diamond in the bathroom of the condo we rented for the week. Praise the Lord. But I look at how this situation created panic and chaos and I think wha...

Evolutionary Theory is a concept that was created by Charles Darwin. While I am not a fan of the theory nor do I personally believe it to be true, there is one aspect of the theory that I believe applies to social media. The concept of the survival of the fittest has been used to describe the piece of Darwin's theory called natural selection. Natural selection is the process of eliminating weaker species or versions of a species. The favored ones must outdo the weaker one in order to survive. In other words, something greater and stronger must exist for another species to be wiped out. Thus, the survival of the fittest. I believe that this theory is applicable in the world of social media. Social media is constantly changing and adapting. New platforms pop up constantly. The question is, what makes a social media platform so popular? What makes one completely die out?  Facebook has been one of the most popular social media sites for the past several years. However, could it ...

Have you ever sat in gum? Well I have. Not to mention that it happened in my favorite white dress! The neon-colored gum stubbornly weaved itself into the stitching of my dress, making it nearly impossible for any cleaner, any treatment, or any cleaning method to remove this horrid, sticky substance. Why is this relevant to the internet you may be asking? What if I told you that social media is the chewing gum of the internet? What if I told that it sticks to us and leaves remnants that make it hard if not impossible to get rid of? Social media looks glamorous. It's the thing everyone couldn't wait to sign up for and it's the thing they still can't wait to log into each and every day. It's the place where people share their own lives and where they second-handedly experience others'. But what happens when the strain of keeping up with every social media platform just becomes overwhelming and overbearing? In my personal experience, I would love to get rid of...